This is an analysis of The Men That Fought At Minden by Rudyard Kipling.
A Song of Instruction
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XXXb XCDC Xefe gghg afXf XXeg Xihi ggbg gehe XCDC bebjj
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 010010 01111101110011 110111101 101011010010 1111111 1110010100110 1111001 11101111110101 1111101 01111101110111 11111 10101111111001 010111 01111101110001 100110101 11100011110111 1111101 01111101110111 111010001 11101111110101 110111 01111101110100 101111100 1111101010101 111011 01111101110101 1101111 1101111110111 1000111 01111101110111 101011111 11100011110101 110101 011111011100101 1110101 1101011011111 010101 1110010100110 1111001 11101111110101 1111101 101011001 1101001 101011011 11101101101 111101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
you, by, an', they, soldiers, yet
Epiphora
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